It’s Elizabeth Shue’s Birthday Today! [VIDEO]

This small tribute is the least I can do for this lovely person today. 

Sure we saw her first in the Karate Kid and she took over the Back to the Future series as Marty's girlfriend, but birthday girl Elizabeth Shue has a catalog you should run to your nearest videostore... uh, I mean...uh... where you find videos and movies these days and scoop up the following and plan a Shue-Palooza immediately! You'll thank me later.

THE SAINT - Cool movie, Val Kilmer is good. James Bond-ish movies based off an old tv show. Shue owns it though, obviously. She's sexy, brainy and adventurous! Triple threat.

LEAVING LAS VEGAS - Of course Shue is hot-tastic in this one. She has to play ultra sexy cause she's a lady of the night (and day, realy). The drama and heavyness of the subject matter sometimes steals scenes, but not all of them! Another Shue win!

HAMLET 2 - ok, major slip up with this one. Apparently, the one who edits the trailer forgot who was in this movie, PLAYING HERSELF BTW. Yes Shue, plays herself actually working in a new field. I won't ruin it for you. The movie actually is hilarious and overlooked, but again even for a short bit of time in this one... Shue scores!

HOLLOW MAN - aka the Invisible Man. They try to throw some cool cast members at you like Kevin Bacon and Josh Brolin and the great William Devane - but we know it's Shue time, all the time. With a perky short due, Shue is anything bu "invisible" in this one!

COUSIN BETTE - Another stellar cast of Jessica Lange, Hugh Laurie and Kelly MacDonald can't even divert attention from a classic time period era Shue. All proper like and decorated in flowing lace garments and drenched in lovely scents.

PALMETTO - Sure, trying to throw us off with Gina Gershon and Chloe Sevigny would work in any other movie (ANY), but not when Shue is this firey. This one scorches with Shueness!

COCKTAIL - Tough to overshadow Tom Cruise in any movie.... tough if your name isn't Elizabeth Shue. Once she appears in this flick at the beach, Cruise's silly glass tosses and bottle flings become too goofy. Even hot cougars dripping from all sides of this movie can't take his mind off the spectacular Shue, whom he goes running back to like a crying baby at the movie's end. Also, "Kokomo" is the stupidest song of all time.

ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING - probably one of her top 3 most memorable films. Before she became the stunning and earth stopping woman she still is today, Lizzy was racing around town in this classic comedy from an oh so simpler time. I mean don't get me wrong, she still was cute as hell here, but you know, in a Duran Duran fan kind of way.

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